The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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With the increased facilities resulting fronvfhe construction of the fresh water reservoir north of town, JUST WATCH ALTUS GROW.
THE OKLAHOMA DEMOCRAT.
Volume 2—Number 25
Altus, Oklahoma, Thursday, September 17, 1908
POSTOFFICE MOVED
OVER NIGHT
BUILDING IS LAST TO BE MOVED
FROM OLD SITE AT ESCHITA TO
NEW ONE AT GRANFIELD
Lawton Ok., Sept. 1].— Potmaster
H. F. Cauble of Eschiti is very much
alarmed over the mysterious moving
last night of the post office from the
place to Granfield the "boostr's town-
site" agreed upon for ajoint town by
the citizens of Eschiti the government
town in the Big Pasturre and well es-
tablished as a rival town on the Wich-
ita Falls and Northwestern Railroad.
The moving of the postoffice the
last building remaining on the old
townsite was done by men unknown
to the postmaster and contrary to his
wishes. The Postoffice Department
has been notified of the removal, and
authorities are expected on the scene
Today Postmaster Cauble refused
to open the postoffice on its new site
n Grandfield.
TAKING PROOF
OF RESIDENCE
C. E. Ruthruft, Publisher
AT THE STATE
UNIVERSITY
Muskogee, Okla., Set.15.-A field j III UllfU|l|l| TV 111 VII II Norman Okla.Sept. 15.— The Okla
party of goverment clerks, under the! " III/ ! flMVL MV/1tILIi homa State University opened here
direction of Commissioner J. George : today for the sixteenth year with
Wright, have already begun the work : i enrollment reaching nearly a thousand
of taking proof of the three years bon-! Boston, Moss., Sept. 11.— "President ! worker for women and organizer of students. According to Dr. G. Grant
afide residence of the Mississippi | Roosevelt has always given a great deal; the Boston Woman's Board of Trade. Evans the president the erollment will
Choctaw allottees in the Choctaw and of ad.vice to womer>. telling them how j -'Why doesn't he devote his attention J reach much larger proportions during
«.• m.. • • , | to raise and care for babies, but ^ never | to the millions of wealth producing |*l *
Chickasaw nations. This is required: • .. . . , . , . . ~ , .. ,, , "s the next two weeks. This year wit-
M since he has been inducted into office | shop girls and factory workers living I
before the land patents can be issued, has he done one thing to advance wo- in the congested districts of the larger | nesses an entire change in the man*
The party is today at Wilburton and j mei; as an industrial, moral and patri-1 cities of the United States? They ! agement of the school with a faculty
tomorrow, Thursday Friday and Sat- ,otic factor in this country," declared | need attention. He plays to the gal- almost new. The opening marks the
TOOK STYCHNINE
BY MISTAKE
urday will be at Kiowa Atoka Durant j ^rs" Charlotte B.
and Hugo.
Smith, reformer ! leriefe too much.'
RAID ON POOL HALL
BOMB MAILED TO
GOVERNOR FORT
Philadelphia Sept. 14. -Qwitjg to
the peculiar shape of a bulty pack-
age addressed to Gov. Fort of New
Jersey postoffice officials became sus-
picious and witheld it. The package
was marked "personal" and attracted
the clerks attention. With the usual
precautions it was opened and found
to contain a bomb constructed of
powder, nails, bullets and matches so
arranged as to explode when opened.
The attempted assasination is thought
to result from the governors persist-
ency iB closing Atlantic City on Sun-
day.
ALIUS, ROSWELL
& EL PASO R. R.
From Monday s Daily.
Mr. E. J. Paslick, of St. Louis,
representing a Trusts Company of that
city is here and will remain for some
time working with Mr. Kennedy,
president of the road. In company
with Mr. H. E. Chapman, he drove
over the line as far as Duke this af-
ternoon and will continue westward
tomorrow with a view of getting up
a report on the line.
Mr. Paslick expressed himself as
highly pleased with Altus and the
country surrounding it, and we hare
no doubt that he will he also pleased
with what he sees as he goes over the
line.
This line will be of vast importance
not only to this city bat to all West-
ern Oklahoma and we are all glad to
know that the building is being push-
ed as rapidly as possiple. All grad-
ing between here and Duke is com-
pleted and all but about five miles
between Duke and Hollis and the
company has 3u teams at work on
that part and it will be completed dur-
ing the next month.
From Monday's Daily.
Considerable excitement was created
on the south side of the square Sat-
urday afternoon when R. S. Moore of
Oklahoma City, state enforcing agent
accompanied by Will Blair, H. A.
Steel, and John Kimbell of this city,
entered the Smith and Joes pool hall
ordered everybody out and began a
search for evidence of violation of
the prohibition bill.
Mr. Moore arrived in the city Fri-
day night and after making some pre-
liminary investigation, went before
city attorney Hall and got out search
warrants. The search Saturday re-
vealed a number of barrels of 'Ad-
ams' 'Special" and a ^couple of bar-
rels unlabelled. These were all re-
moved from the building, together
with the fixtuesr and taken to Mr.
Steele's, pending analysis of the
liquor.
Mr. Moore returned to Oklahoma
city Saturday night where he will
have the stuff analyzed.
The proprietors of the pool hall
claim that the liquor was all Adams
Special', is not itoxicating and its
sale not a violation of law. No arrests
have been made.
Smith «nd Jones by their attorneys.
Johnson and Riegel, began suit this
afternoon for the recovery of the fix-
tures taken from the pool hall Sat-
urday. They propose to test the leg-
ality of the search and seizure clause
in the Blilups Prohibitoin Bill.
NEW m
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
j first year of the institution as a state
• I university.
THE DEMOCRAT'S PROPHESY
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Commence at "B" in the center and read in any direc-
tion. changing your course at any point.
TO SUCCEED JUDGE LOWE
Guthrie, Okla. Sept. 14— John J.
Carney of EIReno, late member of the
Constitutional Convention, was today
appointed judge of the El Reno dist-
rict to succeed Judge Lowe, deceased.
The appointment was made by Acting
Gov. Bellamy, in the presence of Gov.
Haskell who has gone to Chicago.
COUNTY JUDGES MEET
i
THE 0. 0. r.
a desire to seek the
SENSATION IN REPUBLICAN CIRCLES charged with
CAUSED BY PROMINENT TULSAN band wagon.
Some of the reasons he gives of
a national character include his be-
Rochester. N.Y. Sept. 14.- Delega-j
tes are pouring into this city from all j Tulsa, oklat Sept. 21 A sensation He# in government guarantv of bank
parts of New York today, for the big. jn 8Utepo]iti4?aI ^ ^ in ;.on||on#nce
Democratic Convention which begins, , . . . , . „ | ... u „ , ,. , .
B ' whfn it became known that Carl C. with Mr, Bryans and a belief that
this afternoon. Indications point to w . w_ D
I Magee, one of the most prominent cit- Mr- Bryan was sincere in hia cry,
the selection of Martin B. Littleton i. - . . . . !... . ..
izens of eaatern Oklahoma and here l-*'1 the people rule." While Mr.
as temporary chairman and Judge Al- . „ 0_ . . ...
tofore a leader in Republican circles "ryan ta somewhat too radical, he
^ has renounced his political faith and believed that resposibility would be
° e ' in a letter to Gov. Haskell declared too make him probably conservative,
delega- himself in «ywiMthy with Brvan and while reapoaibility.
tes. It is almost a foregone conclu- !.. r. ,, _ . ..
R the Democratic party. would make Mr.
sion that Lieut. Gov. Chanler will be ~ . .. . ' „ ,
. „ Carl Magee is an attorney. He tive. In state matters he points to
the nominee for governor. At tomor- . . . . .
, . was pernanent chairman of the Ok- the fact that last year he differed
r«w s session of the convention, W. .. .... -
alhoma City Republican convenion trom his party it favoring statehood.
Laat believes
Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept 15—
The Convention of County Judges of
Oklahoma, was called to order here
today by Judge Sam Hooker, with
| judges from every district in the state
} in attendance. Members of the Su-
Ipreme Court and the Crimial Court of
Appeals are in attedance, as well as
! prominent attorneys from all over the
state. The program for the conven-
tion includes addresses to be delivered
: by Judge N. M. Williams, Senator
j D. M. Smith and District Judge
Stilwell Russell of Ardmore.
PREMIUMS TOR
FIRST COTTON
From Tuesday's Daily.
Premium list for the first three bales
of cotton ruised in Jackson county and
marketed in Altus in the fall of 1908:
First bale $34.85.
Second bale $20.90.
Third bale $13.95.
There will also be a premium paid for
the fourth bale.
The first bale was brought to Altus
Friday. September 11, by W. E. Barnes,
who received the cash premium of
$34.K5. He also had his cotton ginned
free by Mr Eddy, manager of the
Leger Gin Co. The cotton was sold to !
J. W. Jorden at lOJc per pound.
For premiums, see J. L.
cotton warehouse.
ton B. Parker an permanent chairman.
Democrats from all parts
state are here mingling with
in his opinion,
Taft too conserva-
Guthrie, Okla.,Sep. 14.—Mrs. For-
rey, Santa Fe car cleaner in the local
yards, was taken suddenly ill this
morning while on her way to the Lo-
gan county high school(with her daugh-
ter. She was taken into the Strat-
ton residence, at 604 North Vine street
where she died in a few moments.
John Forray, her husband is now in
the city jail in a dazed condition.
An autopsy was held this afternoon
at the Patterson morgue on the dead
womans body and strchynine is said
to have been the cause of her death.
Mr. Forray says his wife was siek
last night and he gave her a capsule
and another one before breakfast
this , morning. He says he took one
himself. Chief of police went to the
home in the north part of the city,
where he found more capsules, but
they were found not to contain any
strychnine. The officers are work-
ing on the case and have found where
the capsules were purcshaed. |
It is thought that as soon as Forrey
comes out of his stupor he can give
some'information as to how the srych-
nine was given for quinine,.
LAND DEAL
The big land deal which ex-Govern-
or Frantz and his brcther Orville J.
Frantz, who acted as private secretary
to Governor Frantz in 1907, have been
working on for nearly a year was
closed up at Enid. The purchase is
what is known as the Price ranch,
consisting of fify thousand acres of
land lying fify miles west of San An-
tonio, Texas. An Oklahoa City syn-
dicate purchased the land several
months ago and was from them ob-
tained by the Frantz brothers. The
amount involved in the deal is almost
a million dollars. The Frantz brothers
expect to open offices in Oklahoma
City and San Antonio within thirty
days. They expect to colonize the
land and have it put under cultivation.
WAS PA
J. Bryan will deliver an address.
THE COUNTY JAIL
GREER COUNTY PETITION «'
HAS MANY IRREGU
LARRIES
j Kicm Monday's Daily.
' A visit to the county jail might be
i profitable past time for some of
our citiiena who are prone to criticise
official* for inactivity. We hear
«o little about the jail that we were
surprised today to find fourteen
prisoners there, about as many as the
Guthnr. Okk. Sept. 10. Attornev jail car conveniently hold. We don't
Oners! We*t today notified Governor *new just which officer* ar- doing
**** prt,Uon °* * "u",b" th, work. Imt iu
of resident* of Greer county request
in the Third district. He is perhaps oughly disgusted with the incompetent
beat known in Oklahoma as president handling of the statehood question by
of the Oklahoma Federated Commer- the Republicans.
cial Club* and Indusrial Bodies. He was out of harmony with Ok-
He states that he hesitateu long lahoma Republicans because of their
before taking the decisive step, and general policy of obstruction, tired
Peelerville. Pa.. Sept. 14.-A benev-
Hughes at! olent lady here to-day undertook to
fill a hungry tramp who came begging
at the door. The saucy fellow found
fault with the victuals, laughed at the
patent leather pie and ended up by re-
marking that never he expected to fully
recover from the damaging effects of
that meal" When the husband came
home at night and heard the story, he
was mad clear through.
"You cowardly chump!" said the
man to his son. "When you heard that
enter talking that way to your mother.
. Mexico City. Mexico. Sept. 15.—Cel- why didn't you come and tell me? I'd
in separa.e coac s and J Orations are in progress today in all j *' walloped him."
"I heard him, pa. but I was in the
A
BIG DAY
IN MEXICO
that indorsed Taft for president.
year he was a candidate for congress schools for the negroes and was thor-1cf the principal titie*of^e~Re^btic.
only did so now because of the fact
that prevailing political condition*
of the petty quarrels of the little
leaders and opposed to their sysem
are such that he could not possibly beiof vilificatoin of opponents.
ing an election for the purpose of
trmnsfennc a put of the count? to
Jackson, is defective.
a aafe rue** that
ly is busy. The jail is clean
and ha* every appearance of being
kept in a sanitary condition.
TAFT MRTIW
Cincinnati. Ohio, Sept. 15
today, receiving delegation* of loyal
Republicans who called to congratulate
tom on to fifty-first btrthds> anniver-
sary
H. Taft remained quietly at the home *1* party are scheduled for this af-i
of Ins brother. Charles P. Taft, here ternoon and hmght.
in honor of the 78th anniversary of yard and thought it was you. He
President Diaz. The president re- j wer|t on just the same as you do when
ceived delegations who called on him the irrub doesn't suit. I didn't think
during the day with congratulatory i anybody else could have the cheek to
messages. The celebrations will be talk to mother that way. "
continued tomorrow which marks the |
9W.h anniversary of the Independence m * *
of Mexico. In 1810 their independence '
| was declared, but it was not finally es-
tablished until 1924 when the Federal
Republican form of government was
inaugurated, following the conclusion
of a disastrous war with Spain. Pre*-
KING OE KINGS
Rome. Italy. Sept. 14. - Prince
dent Dial, who is still hale and heart v. t-idje Yasou. heir to the Abyssinian
i* oeivmc hi* seventh consecutive term thrane.*was today crowned king by
a* presaVnt of the Republic, and can Emperor Menelik. under the title of
prahahly have the nomination and eler- ..Kl^ , ..
L, .. Kin* of kinn T>* coronation
several eonfeteecc* with lewder* twn again if he wants it. rooawon
ceremories were in accordance with
the customs of the country and oci an
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Ruthruff, C. E. The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1908, newspaper, September 17, 1908; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280117/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.